Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum - A Mirror for Curates. Book III. Part 2

Shortly after the Black Death's ravages, Ranulph Higden (ca. 1285-1364), a Benedictine monk at St. Werburg's abbey in Chester, revised his 1340 Speculum curatorum (or Mirror for Curates), a comprehensive manual for parish priests. It is now divided into three books: I: The Ten Commandments; II: The Seven Capital Sins; and III: The Sacraments. Since the plague's decimation of the parochial clergy, ...